Daniel Ellsberg, Himself:
The ability to live with quite contradictory notions in one's mind, such as, that we are working to preserve democracy and freedom with our ally in South Vietnam, knowing, quite consciously on the other hand, that we have a corrupt dictator, that *we* have installed and who is imprisoning and torturing thousands of people. The ability to hold those two thoughts in your mind, not to question either of them, not to confront them and not to draw any logical implications, especially from the later, the facts of what we're actually doing - that's an ability which is essential and unofficial. And we all had it. I had it. My bosses had it.
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05/03/2025 alle ore 07:26